VacationSelector

Bath or Genoa?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Bath
40
match

Wins on nature & day trips and good for families with your weighting.

Genoa
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and sights concentration with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

BathGenoa
Beaches & swimming. Genoa leads by 65 points.65
BathGenoa
Score873
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km137
Coast distance29 km0 km
Water distance29 km0 km
Places to eat. Genoa leads by 4 points.4
BathGenoa
Score4650
Restaurants within 2 km of centre245691
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2614
Museums & heritage. Genoa leads by 8 points.8
BathGenoa
Score4755
Museums within 10 km2047
Museums within 2 km of centre1433
Share of museums within 2 km %7070
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Genoa leads by 14 points.14
BathGenoa
Score3650
Drinking venues within 4 km320637
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre240419
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7566
Nightclubs within 4 km1117
Nature & day trips. Bath leads by 9 points.9
BathGenoa
Score4435
Protected land share 50 km %288
Landscape blanket share 50 km %270
Land share of disc %9261
Park area within 2 km45 hectares29 hectares
Good for families. Bath leads by 2 points.2
BathGenoa
Score4038
Tourist attractions within 2 km1421
Park area within 2 km45 hectares29 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Genoa leads by 29 points.29
BathGenoa
Score3261
Notable places within 2 km25130
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Genoa leads by 14 points.14
BathGenoa
Score5468
Price level global84.964.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Genoa leads by 18 points.18
BathGenoa
Score5573
Monthly daytime high6.8 °C to 21.4 °C11.7 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall49 mm to 87 mm12 mm to 122 mm
Dry months03
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Bath
7
8
10
13
16
19
21
21
18
14
10
7
Genoa
12
12
15
18
21
25
27
28
25
20
16
13
Sea temperature, °C
Bath
8
7
7
9
12
15
18
18
17
15
12
9
Genoa
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Bath
77
55
49
54
56
56
61
66
54
87
83
79
Genoa
58
41
47
67
40
26
12
20
72
101
122
89
Daylight, hours per day
Bath
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Genoa
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bath
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
Genoa
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
10
7
6
4
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bath: 1991-2020 normals, Lyneham (29.2 km from centre). Genoa: 1991-2020 normals, Genova / Sestri (6.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBathGenoa
MadridMAD
2 h 5 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
2 h 0 m
€63-91
MXP · 137 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 10 m
€518-651
1 stop
LHR · 132 km
8 h 15 m
€542-635
1 stop
MXP · 137 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 45 m
no fares
BHX · 126 km
2 h 40 m
€140-309
MXP · 137 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 35 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
2 h 25 m
€41-49
MXP · 137 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
4 h 0 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
4 h 10 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 25 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
2 h 35 m
€78-142
MXP · 137 km
AthensATH
3 h 40 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
2 h 25 m
€91-99
MXP · 137 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 15 m
no fares
BHX · 126 km
6 h 10 m
€375-563
MXP · 137 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
11 h 50 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
11 h 50 m
€1,114-1167
2 stops
MXP · 137 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 15 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
10 h 10 m
€710-815
1 stop
MXP · 137 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-08 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureBathGenoa
Official languageEnglishItalian
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation132 m20 m
Main airportBristol Airport (BRS)25 km from centre116 non-stop destinationsGenoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport (GOA)7 km from centre23 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBathGenoa
City population94,092558,745
People per km²3,2452,325
Museums within 10 km1751
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre3841
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone4 months

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.